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Former Goa MLA dies after altercation with auto driver in Belagavi: Police
Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant said the government was in close coordination with the local authorities to ensure a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident

Published on Feb 15, 2025 09:08 PM IST
In unusual move, Goa South SP Sunita Sawant transferred via wireless message
Goa govt transfers South Goa SP Sunita Sawant after she probes Bajrang Dal, prompting Congress to allege political interference and suppression of law enforcement.

Updated on Jan 29, 2025 08:01 PM IST
At pre-budget meet, Goa seeks ₹1,000 crore for climate change resistant infra
Goa chief minister also requested additional funds for the protection of khazans at the pre-budget consultation meeting chaired by Nirmala Sitharaman

Updated on Dec 23, 2024 06:16 PM IST
Tweaks in Goa land laws to fix legacy problems: Officials
The introduction of clause 17(2) in the Goa Town and Country Planning Act allowed changes to Goa’s land use maps to fix “inadvertent errors” that needed alteration or modification

Updated on Jul 27, 2024 11:30 AM IST
21.29 lakh sq m green zones in Goa converted for construction in 15 month: Data
The surge in land conversion in Goa happened after the state government introduced two changes in rules in March 2023

Updated on Jul 23, 2024 03:50 PM IST
In tussle over Kalasa-Banduri canal project, Karnataka government hits out at Goa
The Karnataka government on Tuesday took a jibe at the Goa government and said the probe “exposed the lies” told by chief minister Pramod Sawant, a day after the inspection of the halted Kalasa-Banduri canal project on the Mahadayi River along the Goa Karnataka border in Belagavi district by a central body team, was completed.

Updated on Jul 10, 2024 07:52 AM IST
Hirekop Rajan Samuel Gerard de Souza, Belagavi/panaji
Goa officials inspect halted Kalasa-Banduri irrigation project in Belagavi
The Kannada organisations voiced concerns that the team, comprising members from Goa, would produce a biased report

Updated on Jul 08, 2024 06:30 AM IST
Hirekop Rajan Samuel, Belagavi
Carrying capacity study for Goa coast in progress: Goa minister Aleixo Sequeira
The Goa government has also written to the Centre to seek a reduction in the number of ecologically sensitive villages

Published on Jul 02, 2024 09:40 PM IST
Pramod Sawant asks Centre to relax 2014 restriction on ore transport
Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant also broached the subject when he called on Union environment minister Bhupenndra Yadav

Published on Jun 25, 2024 06:16 PM IST
Expeditiously settling forest rights of STs in Mhadei sanctuary, Goa tells HC
The high court is hearing a contempt petition over the government’s failure to declare the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve

Published on Jun 13, 2024 05:10 PM IST
Goa govt, World Bank collaborate for blended finance facility for climate resilience
Goa govt, World Bank collaborate for blended finance facility for climate resilience

Updated on Feb 20, 2024 12:21 PM IST
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Criteria to identify private forest cannot be uniform for country: Supreme Court
The Court gave the ruling while dismissing a petition challenging the criteria adopted in this regard by the Goa government

Published on Jan 26, 2024 04:54 PM IST
Eco-tourism project in Old Goa sparks row, locals concerned about heritage structures
In October this year, the Goa Investment Promotion Board granted its ‘in-principle’ nod to a proposal by The Laterite Resorts to develop a high-end luxury eco resort within the village panchayat of Old Goa

Published on Nov 08, 2023 03:29 PM IST
Who is Vishwajit Rane and why is he a problem for the Goa BJP?
The minister tried to bring in large-scale changes which he was forced to retract after facing opposition. Even in his party, he is at loggerheads with his CM

Updated on Oct 31, 2023 08:38 PM IST
Goa CM urges Centre to drop 40 villages from list of eco-sensitive areas
The chief minister’s comments have come at a time when an expert team from the Ministry of Environment and Forests is visiting the state

Updated on Oct 18, 2023 04:45 PM IST
CAG flags Goa govt billing 28% of its expenditure as ‘other expenditure
Billing in such a manner not only affected transparency in financial reporting but also prevented proper analysis of allocative priorities and quality of expenditure, the CAG said

Updated on Aug 10, 2023 07:34 PM IST
Goa DIG relieved of duties after misbehaving with woman at club
Recently posted to Goa and given charge as DIG, Koan misbehaved with a woman who was at the same beach club, Las Olas, along with her partner in the Calangute beach area on Monday night

Updated on Aug 10, 2023 05:30 PM IST
Goa brings new law to curb destruction of public records
Once passed, the Bill will mandate that every record-creating agency (government ministry, department or state-run or funded corporation or autonomous body) shall appoint a records officer, who shall be in charge of the records room

Updated on Aug 09, 2023 02:04 PM IST
Scrap rail project that helps Karnataka at Goa’s cost, Oppn tells Pramod Sawant
Opposition leaders in Goa demanded that the government halt the construction of a parallel railway track along the existing south-western line between Tinaighat in Karnataka and Vasco da Gama

Updated on Aug 07, 2023 10:14 PM IST
Goa government pledges to restore 400-year-old ‘Ponte de Linhares’ stone bridge
Ponte de Linhares was built in 1633–34 and is often said to have been the longest in the world at 3.2 km (2.0 miles) when completed in 1634. The bridge, which runs along the flood plains of the Mandovi River, connects Ribandar to the city of Panjim

Updated on Aug 02, 2023 07:40 PM IST
Notify Mhadei sanctuary as tiger reserve in 3 months, Bombay HC orders Goa
The Goa bench of the Bombay high court ordered the state to notify the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve days after the state wildlife board rejected the move

Updated on Jul 24, 2023 09:53 PM IST
Existing flights at Dabolim won’t be allowed to shift to Mopa airport: Goa CM
Pramod Sawant was responding to a calling attention motion by south Goa legislators in the state assembly

Updated on Jul 20, 2023 05:54 PM IST
Doing everything to oppose Karnataka’s diversion of Mhadei waters: Pramod Sawant
Goa Forward Party lawmaker Vijai Sardesai questioned the state government’s failure in the matter as he raised it during the question hour in the assembly on Wednesday

Updated on Jul 20, 2023 08:36 AM IST
HC rejects pleas of Goa casinos for fee waiver for Covid lockdown period
A bench of Justices M S Sonak and Valmiki Sa Menezes on Thursday said seeking concessions is neither reasonable nor a legitimate expectation

Updated on Apr 07, 2023 02:17 PM IST
Clash of cultures and rights in Goa’s underground bullfighting pits
Weighing upwards of three-fourths of a tonne, Surya is not the regular water buffalo seen in Goa, calmly munching on the vegetation.

Updated on Aug 02, 2022 10:29 AM IST
, Panaji
Gerard de SouzaHC admits Goa govt’s petition challenging Tejpal’s acquittal in 2013 rape case
The Goa government had filed a petition before the high court soon after a sessions court acquitted Tarun Tejpal of all charges last year. Tejpal had challenged the maintainability of the application.

Updated on Apr 24, 2022 04:44 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Panaji
Goa CM Sawant expands cabinet, inducts 3 new ministers
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP)’s Ramkrishna Sudin Dhavalikar and BJP leaders Subhash Phas Dessai and Nilkanth Halarnkar were sworn in as ministers in the Pramod Sawant cabinet by Goa governor PS Sreedharan at 12 noon.

Updated on Apr 10, 2022 07:24 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Panaji
Goa CM Sawant allocates portfolios, retains home and finance
Vishwajit Rane, who had unsuccessfully lobbied for the chief minister’s post, was allocated the crucial portfolios of health and town and country planning, along with urban development, women and child, and forest departments.

Published on Apr 03, 2022 11:28 PM IST
, Panaji
Gerard de SouzaIn Goa, CM Pramod Sawant allocates portfolios, Rane gets crucial ones
Pramod Sawant has till date accommodated eight ministers in the cabinet all from the BJP and three slots are vacant that are expected to go to the allies including one to the MGP and two to Independents.

Published on Apr 03, 2022 09:07 PM IST
Bombay HC to hear plea challenging Tarun Tejpal's acquittal in rape case
Tarun Tejpal, the former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, was in 2013 accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague of his. On May 21 earlier this year, a Goa trial court presided over by Justice Kshama Joshi acquitted him of all charges.

Published on Oct 27, 2021 05:51 AM IST
Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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